DriveDx 1.7.0 for Mac will Protect You from Data Loss and Downtime

[prMac.com] San Francisco, California - BinaryFruit today is pleased to announce the release and immediate availability of DriveDx 1.7.0, its latest solution for SSD and HDD health diagnostics and monitoring. As macOS does not have a comprehensive drive health indicator, DriveDx fills a critical role in measuring the overall health of both SSD and HDD drives. Because DriveDx tracks more indicators of impending failure than any other product on the market, users will get an advanced warning before their drives fail. This will allow them to take action to avert the failure and save themselves from resulting data loss and downtime.

"Here's a DriveDx triumph. DriveDx showed my just out of AppleCare iMac with two pre-fail conditions for the hard drive. Made appointment and took it to Genius Bar yesterday. Tech looked at DriveDx and was very impressed. Even though out of warranty - they replaced the drive without question," said Michael Sidoric, CapMac User Group Treasurer, ex-Vice President of CapMac.org. "God knows how many dollars and troubles DriveDx saved me since I had several vital FinalCut projects on it."

DriveDx is a combined drive health analysis and forecasting tool. It monitors and analyzes changes to S.M.A.R.T. attributes in order to continuously evaluate drive health status and predict drive failures. In addition to "Failed" and "OK" drive statutes DriveDx supports "Warning" and "Failing" statuses indicating that a drive is in a pre-failure status and backup of sensitive data is highly recommended.

DriveDx performs both SSD and HDD health diagnostics. Moreover, it uses a separate set of indicators for SSD and HDD to monitor drive health status. This is particularly important as SSD works different from HDD, and requires a different algorithm to check its health status. Also, SSDs typically are more dependent on firmware than HDDs, and DriveDx has been programmed to support many versions of firmware (please see our website for a complete list of supported firmware).

DriveDx allows configuring the delivery of customized drive status and free space reports by e-mail and therefore does not require user presence to inform about drive status changes. In addition, DriveDx can launch built-in drive diagnostics self-tests. Drive self-tests will help to quickly identify if the drive is faulty.

DriveDx is the first utility of its kind to have a real user-friendly Mac-style interface. It is organized in a way that allows a user to view and understand drive status and its performance at a glance. User can switch between different view modes to drill up or down data related to drive health, including S.M.A.R.T. indicators and attributes, drive statistics and errors.

What's New in DriveDx 1.7.0:
* Improved SSD and HDD health diagnostic algorithms and heuristics
* Improved support for Apple SSDs
* Added support for recent LaCie HDDs
* Improved support for SanDisk Plus SSDs
* Improved support of recent Seagate HDDs
* Automatic Email Reports can be sent at a user-specified time
* Added support for macOS native Notification Center on macOS 10.12
* Animation of diagnostic UI
* Many stability improvements
* Many cosmetics tweaks and fixes

BinaryFruit is a team of creative IT professionals developing the most comprehensive and user-friendly macOS tools and solutions. We make fruitful software! Copyright (C) 2012-2017 BinaryFruit. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, macOS are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

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